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screen — Hold a session open on a remote server. Manage multiple windows with a single SSH connection. See al

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Problem

How to use the screen command: Hold a session open on a remote server. Manage multiple windows with a single SSH connection. See also: tmux, zellij. More information: <https://manned.org/screen>.

Solution

screen — Hold a session open on a remote server. Manage multiple windows with a single SSH connection. See also: tmux, zellij. More information: <https://manned.org/screen>.

Start a new screen session:

screen

Start a new named screen session:

screen -S {{session_name}}

Start a new daemon and log the output to screenlog.x:

screen -dmLS {{session_name}} {{command}}

Show open screen sessions:

screen -ls

Reattach to an open screen:

screen -r {{session_name}}

Detach from inside a screen:

<Ctrl a><d>

Kill the current screen session:

<Ctrl a><k>

Kill a detached screen:

screen -X -S {{session_name}} quit

Code Snippets

Start a new screen session

screen

Start a new named screen session

screen -S {{session_name}}

Start a new daemon and log the output to `screenlog.x`

screen -dmLS {{session_name}} {{command}}

Show open screen sessions

screen -ls

Reattach to an open screen

screen -r {{session_name}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/screen

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